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Drew Hayden Taylor is one of Canada's leading Native playwrights
and humorists. Humour figures in all Taylor's work, eliciting
laughter edged with disturbing awareness of stereotypes being
exploded and bitter truths being given a very thin sugar coating.
He was born on July 1, 1962, on the Curve Lake First Nation, near
Peterborough, Ontario, and was raised on the reserve by his Ojibway
mother. He has never known his father, who was white. In 1982 he
graduated from Seneca College, Toronto, with a diploma in Radio and
Television Broadcasting. After graduating, he worked in several
media. In radio he worked as Native Affairs reporter for the CBC.
In print journalism he contributed articles to a large number of
magazines and newspapers, an a…

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